From My Grandmother's Kitchen: Authentic French-country Home Cooking by Charlotte De Saint Alban

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  • ISBN 10 1584792817
  • ISBN 13 9781584792819
  • Published Mar 01 2003
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 176
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Stewart, Tabori & Chang
  • Imprint Stewart, Tabori & Chang Inc

Publishers Text

In times past, traditional French housekeepers would write down their favorite daily recipes in a special journal, passing down these treasures of family cuisine from mother to daughter. Charlotte de Saint Alban inherited one such journal from her grandmother, an excellent cook. Its contents reveal French cooking and French kitchen life as it really existed during the years 1893 to 1940. These 200 recipes include 70 appetizers, main courses, and side dishes - among them meat croquettes, various pates, salmon mousse, duck with olives, and eggs a la Mirabeau - along with 130 desserts, sweets, preserves, and beverages including an amazingly simple strawberry souffle, madeleines, orange-perfumed meringues, and classic dessert fritters called "Merveilles." Prepared in a household kitchen using much the same equipment familiar to us today, the dishes have been tested and adapted for the modern home kitchen. Not only the updated recipes, but a section of the original journal, with Grandmere's handwritten tips, is perfectly reproduced here. For cookbook collectors and lovers of real French cuisine, this book is a treasure.